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john mcafee back in the u.s. could be he extradited to belize for questioning in connection with the murder of his neighbor? tomorrow morning at 7:00 a. mchlt the story behind the fed's latest move, dallas fed president richard fisher is going to be our special guest. we've got lots of questions for him. try running four.ning a restaurant is hard, fortunately we've got ink. it gives us 5x the rewards on our internet, phone charges and cable, plus at office supply stores. rewards we put right back into our business. this is the only thing we've ever wanted to do and ink helps us do it. make your mark with ink from chase. [ male announcer ] you are a business pro. monarch of marketing analysis. with the ability to improve roi through seo all by cob. and you...rent from national. because only national lets you choose any car in the aisle... and go. you can even take a full-size or above, and still pay the mid-size price. i'm going b-i-g. [ male announcer ] good choice business pro. good choice. go national. go like
john mcafee back in the u.s. could be he extradited to belize for questioning in connection with the murder of his neighbor? tomorrow morning at 7:00 a. mchlt the story behind the fed's latest move, dallas fed president richard fisher is going to be our special guest. we've got lots of questions for him. try running four.ning a restaurant is hard, fortunately we've got ink. it gives us 5x the rewards on our internet, phone charges and cable, plus at office supply stores. rewards we put right...
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one question i keep coming up against is the president and john boehner are now supposedly having good, substantive discussions. can boehner bring the troops along? if he agrees with the president, can he get enough tea party republicans behind him to sale the deal? because that wasn't the case back in 2011. and, tony, i have to say, both sides seem to have really -- with all the rhetoric we've had leading up to today, it seems to me that both sides have rallied up their bases and i have questions about whether either of them can deliver. >> yeah. i think it makes it really difficult. jared is right, you know, you talk about each element of what an agreement might be. some of them are really big water fall kinds of issues, right? and the rate issue is a water fall kind of issue. you don't meet in the middle. you have to go over and everybody go off the water fall together. >> wait a second. is there a proposal that could be met which would say we're going to raise income tax rates, but we're not going to go back to 39.6%? maybe 37%. >> it is possible, but still it is movement on margin
one question i keep coming up against is the president and john boehner are now supposedly having good, substantive discussions. can boehner bring the troops along? if he agrees with the president, can he get enough tea party republicans behind him to sale the deal? because that wasn't the case back in 2011. and, tony, i have to say, both sides seem to have really -- with all the rhetoric we've had leading up to today, it seems to me that both sides have rallied up their bases and i have...
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john, thanks. we'll see you later. >> you bet. >> all right. >>> let's get a check on the markets this morning. last week, the markets ended flattest. the dow was down by about 0.2%. you also had the s&p futures down by about 0.3%. you can see right now as we've been taking a look at. >> of these boards going by that oil prices are down slightly this morning. they're down about 22 cents to 86.51. also taking a look at the dollar or the yen. the euro is at 14 1.3150. futures are indicated slightly higher, at leave fout dow futures. the s&p future is up about 3.5 while the nasdaq futures are down by about 7.5 points. >> let's get an update from across the pond. kelly evans is standing by in london. miss evans. >> good morning andrew and everyone. we were looking higher before the open, but we've quickly seen the sell-off across the board. what's interesting about the story today is it's not so much as macro driven as micro. i want to show you a couple of the names we're hearing from this morning. i'l
john, thanks. we'll see you later. >> you bet. >> all right. >>> let's get a check on the markets this morning. last week, the markets ended flattest. the dow was down by about 0.2%. you also had the s&p futures down by about 0.3%. you can see right now as we've been taking a look at. >> of these boards going by that oil prices are down slightly this morning. they're down about 22 cents to 86.51. also taking a look at the dollar or the yen. the euro is at 14...
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cn cnbc's john ford joins us now with a very special guest. john? >> thanks, becky. thorsten heins, thanks for joining us this morning. congratulations on outperforming a lot of expectations on the quarter that you reported. a couple of areas, though, i want to ask about. one is service revenue. another is blackberry pen devices. starting with service revenue, because that's now about a third of overall revenue, three quarters of gross profit by some estimates. what's going to happen to service revenue as we transition to blackberry 10? a lot of concerns that carriers are not going to pay full rate on service for consumers because they're not going to get the full enterprise security package. they don't want that full package. should we expect consumer service revenue to fall by say, half, going forward? >> so, good morning. first. and thanks for that question, because i think there is some clarification needed here. first of all, we have 79 million blackberry subscribers out there on black rememberry os devices and that service revenue isn't going to go away. that s
cn cnbc's john ford joins us now with a very special guest. john? >> thanks, becky. thorsten heins, thanks for joining us this morning. congratulations on outperforming a lot of expectations on the quarter that you reported. a couple of areas, though, i want to ask about. one is service revenue. another is blackberry pen devices. starting with service revenue, because that's now about a third of overall revenue, three quarters of gross profit by some estimates. what's going to happen to...
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john harwood begins in ohio visiting the home state of house speaker john boehner asking constituents if their representative is representing them or not. the currents to rise above all day and i guess they mean their representative in congress and the representative in the white house asking both all day on "squawk box." tdd# 1-800-345-2550 you should've seen me today. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 when the spx crossed above its 50-day moving average, tdd# 1-800-345-2550 i saw the trend. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 it looked really strong. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 and i jumped right on it. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 tdd# 1-800-345-2550 since i've switched to charles schwab... tdd# 1-800-345-2550 ...i've been finding opportunities like this tdd# 1-800-345-2550 a lot more easily. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 like today, tdd# 1-800-345-2550 i was using their streetsmart edge trading platform tdd# 1-800-345-2550 and i saw a double bottom form. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 i called one of their trading specialists tdd# 1-800-345-2550 and i bounced a few ideas off of him. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 they're always there for me. tdd# 1-800-345-2
john harwood begins in ohio visiting the home state of house speaker john boehner asking constituents if their representative is representing them or not. the currents to rise above all day and i guess they mean their representative in congress and the representative in the white house asking both all day on "squawk box." tdd# 1-800-345-2550 you should've seen me today. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 when the spx crossed above its 50-day moving average, tdd# 1-800-345-2550 i saw the trend. tdd#...
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>> well, john, it's harry wilson. one thing that's really interesting to me, there's been a lot made about the fact that the president's proposal is closer to the clinton era tax rates. but very little has been said about the fact that no one is close to the clinton era spending levels. so, as you know, when you were in the white house, the budget was last balanced, spending was around 19% of gdp. even under the republican proposal it's way above that. so how do you get comfortable that we'll ever get closed to a balance budget when spending is 15% to 20% higher than the last time we were in balance? >> harry, i think that's an excellent point. there are two factors there, maybe three. one, very much higher defense topline. second, the results of the recession are still being felt in the budget today. receipts are still down. and spending is still up from the high level of unemployment. that will hopefully come back to normal over the next year or two. and then third, we've got a bigger entitlement bill. and so i thin
>> well, john, it's harry wilson. one thing that's really interesting to me, there's been a lot made about the fact that the president's proposal is closer to the clinton era tax rates. but very little has been said about the fact that no one is close to the clinton era spending levels. so, as you know, when you were in the white house, the budget was last balanced, spending was around 19% of gdp. even under the republican proposal it's way above that. so how do you get comfortable that...
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john wehner figured it out. and boehner can turn around and say i need $6 trillion in titlement cuts. and they can each take each other's playbook and try and figure out what they would like best to -- figure out the number and figure out how to get there. >> i don't know. both sides seem to be only too willing to do it. they're in the booking rove on fox because of that fiasco. which made good tv, but apparent apparently, i don't know, but he says republicans will get the blame for going off the cliff, but the president will be weakened the most. and orrin hatch called geithner's statement one of the most stunning and irresponsible statements that he's heard in some tile. soo can the economy avoid the cliff and rides above? anyway, senior u.s. economist and managing director at ubs. do you think we'll get a deal? >> i think we'll get a deal. do we get it before the holidays or after for markets, it matters. it's been a drag for the last nine months. so the idea that there is more uncertainty now than there was
john wehner figured it out. and boehner can turn around and say i need $6 trillion in titlement cuts. and they can each take each other's playbook and try and figure out what they would like best to -- figure out the number and figure out how to get there. >> i don't know. both sides seem to be only too willing to do it. they're in the booking rove on fox because of that fiasco. which made good tv, but apparent apparently, i don't know, but he says republicans will get the blame for going...
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you are, john, i'm feeling warm and fuzzy. you're rising above, even though you don't have a button, but you're rising above. >> you know what? no, i'm not going to go there. >> go ahead, please do, because you know when you say it, it stays forever. i'll send it right to the ceo. anyway -- >> john, thank you for that, we'll leave it there and save everybody. >> tattle tale. >>> if you thought the hewlett-packard autonomy was over think again. former ceo mike lynch says he was caught unaware. others would hide behind lawyers and he has not. couple things were shocking to me. he says repeatedly he didn't know that this investigation was happening and anonymous executive is quoted saying they actual lay proechd mike lynch and said he was evasive, not forthcoming and didn't remember, after something like that, you don't bother telling him you're being investigated. and they're taking shots at him anonymously as well saying, this say weird one, on at least two different cross-country flights on an hp private jet, mike lynch went t
you are, john, i'm feeling warm and fuzzy. you're rising above, even though you don't have a button, but you're rising above. >> you know what? no, i'm not going to go there. >> go ahead, please do, because you know when you say it, it stays forever. i'll send it right to the ceo. anyway -- >> john, thank you for that, we'll leave it there and save everybody. >> tattle tale. >>> if you thought the hewlett-packard autonomy was over think again. former ceo mike...
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john, i thought i was hip because i listen the my 14 year owed. give me what this game salad is. >> is he using it already? >> it is a platform for writing video games. what's unusual is that it is the first platform out there where you don't use lines of code. you drag and drop objects. an 8 or 10-year-old, half a million developers, are use thing. written using game salad. >> how does this change the balance? i think of that as opposition. the con ten now going get more market cap, more capital, gravitating to content away from distributors now? >> over a long period of time i think so. content producers are moving from media companies to individuals. and whether it is a photographer in india who takes a great photo and available in 500 px or a kid who has a great idea for a game and then just has tools available to rate them, that's what's happening. or you on facebook, when you post something up there, you are creating content. >> okay. we are going to get to this cool thing in just a minute. give me one cool thing before that. get to the mind
john, i thought i was hip because i listen the my 14 year owed. give me what this game salad is. >> is he using it already? >> it is a platform for writing video games. what's unusual is that it is the first platform out there where you don't use lines of code. you drag and drop objects. an 8 or 10-year-old, half a million developers, are use thing. written using game salad. >> how does this change the balance? i think of that as opposition. the con ten now going get more...
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john lawrence covers the sector for stevens. john, first of all, what can we expect from these two companies with the earnings coming out and what are you seeing with how americans are feeling as we head into the crucial retail season? >> certainly in the case of walmart i think we'll see that they're very bullish on what they've been able to do in the marketplace. some of the things that they've got planned for black friday, pretty aggressive. certainly the last several quarters, they're riding on a lot of good sales momentum because of these initiatives over the last couple year. i think we'll continue to see that. some of these ideas they put in place like the one hour guarantee for black friday and some of the announcements with -- at the end of the day, walmart when they're priced right, give that value to the customer and they're in stock, they do very well. and we continue to see that continuing. >> in terms of being priced right, is that a reflection of the sentiment of the nation right now just how consumers are feeling
john lawrence covers the sector for stevens. john, first of all, what can we expect from these two companies with the earnings coming out and what are you seeing with how americans are feeling as we head into the crucial retail season? >> certainly in the case of walmart i think we'll see that they're very bullish on what they've been able to do in the marketplace. some of the things that they've got planned for black friday, pretty aggressive. certainly the last several quarters, they're...
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john harwood in washington with more. and john, certainly seems like the pressure is rising to maybe reach some sort of a deal. my question, the ceos headed there today, are they firmly in the president's camp on this? or trying to push both sides to reach some agreement? >> i think they're trying to push both sides and, you know, business executives are generally speaking in the camp of wanting a solution, but as with any constituent, it comes down to what the details of the agreement are as to whether they want a tax increase, if it affects somebody else's tax loophole as opposed to their own. and that's the balancing act that politicians have. what we have going on here, becky, is a three-way conversation. politicians talking to the public, part of these events are for the american people to see that these leaders are working on this. the president's hitting the road to pennsylvania later in the week, republicans are doing events with small business people, as well. you have a conversation between politicians and busin
john harwood in washington with more. and john, certainly seems like the pressure is rising to maybe reach some sort of a deal. my question, the ceos headed there today, are they firmly in the president's camp on this? or trying to push both sides to reach some agreement? >> i think they're trying to push both sides and, you know, business executives are generally speaking in the camp of wanting a solution, but as with any constituent, it comes down to what the details of the agreement...
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it's still below the $1 million that john boehner wants. we've been saying all along it probably goes up to 500. >> maybe you get up to 650 at this point. >> and then we have to decide, does it go back to 39.6? >> yeah. i had seen yesterday that there was some commentary -- is it 39.6 or 39-7? >> 29en 6 of. >> some commentary that john boehner has said okay on the 39 39.6. >> and the president said for two years. they would like to do it by christmas. i think that would be nice if they did it by christmas. you're watching "it's a wonderful life." and you realize that both sides rose above and did what was right? >> wouldn't that be nice? >> time to have pulled out this big -- >> would we actually say that it was "squawk box" that it did it? >> do we have ins for boehner and the president? that would be nice. where is yours? oh, yeah, i meant to wear it. i have like four of them. i bring it up. i put one on here and then i take it off and then i forget to bring it down the next day. >> i have to give you credit and becky, we've always been r
it's still below the $1 million that john boehner wants. we've been saying all along it probably goes up to 500. >> maybe you get up to 650 at this point. >> and then we have to decide, does it go back to 39.6? >> yeah. i had seen yesterday that there was some commentary -- is it 39.6 or 39-7? >> 29en 6 of. >> some commentary that john boehner has said okay on the 39 39.6. >> and the president said for two years. they would like to do it by christmas. i think...
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speaker john boehner has said that this is something that is much closer to the bowles-simpson proposal. erskine bowles saying the gop offer does not represent the plan, he says both sides are kind of far away from it at this point and that it's now up to negotiators to figure out where the middle ground is today. >> bowles said that the mid point that i used back in -- this is where we were last year. so used the mid point of the negotiations, but it's in longer the mid point i guess. >> he also said -- he is a testimony, but he has separated himself from the administration by saying that they thoo should have taken more of their proposals more seriously. he also said last night that you will see higher marginal tax rates. >> higher marginal or effective? >> higher mar begin ginal rates talking about last night. >> that's part of the 500. >> he thinks as part of the compromise to get there, you'll have to see the democrats get their way in terms of higher marginal tax rates. he also said that the republicans should be able to see higher entitlement cuts, that that should be part of thi
speaker john boehner has said that this is something that is much closer to the bowles-simpson proposal. erskine bowles saying the gop offer does not represent the plan, he says both sides are kind of far away from it at this point and that it's now up to negotiators to figure out where the middle ground is today. >> bowles said that the mid point that i used back in -- this is where we were last year. so used the mid point of the negotiations, but it's in longer the mid point i guess....
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senator ron john so thson joins. senator, thanks for being here. >> good morning. >> senator, we've been following all of these negotiations as the market has turning on every single bit of information that comes out. you say that you would not go along with any idea to raise those marginal tax rates. why is that? >> because everything we should be doing here should be concentrating on economic growth because that's time as more effective. let me give you a couple numbers. even with the very meager recovery that we've had, revenue has increased to the federal government by $344 billion per year. if we just return to a normal economy like we had in 2007, those policies of george bush where we had 18.5% of our economy coming to the federal government as revenue, that would be another $419 billion. so combined, that would be $750 billion per year of additional revenue. now, president obama's proposal of punishing success, it's hard to say exactly what it will be, but somewhere around $75 billion. it's a tenth of what we
senator ron john so thson joins. senator, thanks for being here. >> good morning. >> senator, we've been following all of these negotiations as the market has turning on every single bit of information that comes out. you say that you would not go along with any idea to raise those marginal tax rates. why is that? >> because everything we should be doing here should be concentrating on economic growth because that's time as more effective. let me give you a couple numbers....
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you heard john boehner say that already. we've had voteses in the senate where we've gotten rid of tax credits. i think that's a given. and i think that the vast majority of measures agree with that. the question is how do you do that and how do you allow taxes to rise at the same time you fix the real problem and that's uncontrolled entitlement spending and a government that has grown massively. >> i think if the house stands for anything, it's cut government spending as tom coburn said and i think we'll have to do more of it. we heard the mandate in 2010 where it was a clear mandate cut spending and we did, we cut $900 billion in spending that he can't like painful tos us. >> we'll continue our call to rise bol politics and make a deal. oufr guests this morning include mike jackson and also david zaslav. and the head of maris group. and douglas holtz-eakin. >> let's talk about eurozone finance ministers meeting to discuss whether to release a new tranche of fund to go greece. the leaders are not expected it to okay the fun
you heard john boehner say that already. we've had voteses in the senate where we've gotten rid of tax credits. i think that's a given. and i think that the vast majority of measures agree with that. the question is how do you do that and how do you allow taxes to rise at the same time you fix the real problem and that's uncontrolled entitlement spending and a government that has grown massively. >> i think if the house stands for anything, it's cut government spending as tom coburn said...
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president obama and house speaker john boehner spoke by phone on tuesday, exchanging new proposals. the president gave boehner a revised offer on monday, reducing his demand for new tax revenue from $1.6 trillion to $1.4 trillion over ten years. boehner responded with a plan that largely sticks to his original offer a week ago. reports say the white house has told republicans it would include an overhaul of corporate taxes in any budget deal. that hasn't been done before. in an exclusive interview with barbara walters of abc news, president obama says he still expects a deal before the end of the year. >> i remain optimistic that there are enough people of goodwill in this town that recognize our economy will be much better off. american families will be much better off if we get this done. the most important thing we can do is make sure that middle-class taxes do not go up on january 1. and i'm pretty confident that republicans would not hold middle-class taxes hostage to try to protect tax cuts for high-income individuals. >> prediction -- are you going to be able to raise taxes,
president obama and house speaker john boehner spoke by phone on tuesday, exchanging new proposals. the president gave boehner a revised offer on monday, reducing his demand for new tax revenue from $1.6 trillion to $1.4 trillion over ten years. boehner responded with a plan that largely sticks to his original offer a week ago. reports say the white house has told republicans it would include an overhaul of corporate taxes in any budget deal. that hasn't been done before. in an exclusive...
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i think only john boehner and the president of the united states right now have the most information about how that will unfold but you know what? the night of the election everybody told me it was going to be a long night and we'd wait weeks and weeks and it was over by 11:00. sometimes this institution when under the right pressure can surprise you. the fiscal cliff is a policy choice, the leaders instituted this to make good on their actions and they better make good on the public. >> i got a telecom cable question. jeff bucchus. >> he made the input, joe, andrew. your question is you changed the input on the tv and you get -- >> he says you shouldn't worry about cord cutters, they should worry about cord nevers, entire generation of people not hooking themselves up at all. do you agree with him? >> one of the things we're seeing in the down economy is so many young people are moving back home with their parents, seeing less of the young college kid opening up his apartment, calling up the cable guy, connecting up and being committed to the programming. lots of programming is avai
i think only john boehner and the president of the united states right now have the most information about how that will unfold but you know what? the night of the election everybody told me it was going to be a long night and we'd wait weeks and weeks and it was over by 11:00. sometimes this institution when under the right pressure can surprise you. the fiscal cliff is a policy choice, the leaders instituted this to make good on their actions and they better make good on the public. >>...
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jim blushy -- john belushi. >> that would be alcohol for everyone, i think, amendment. beers for -- >> college for everyone. >> yeah, college for everyone. no studying, but college. >> yes, but college with your college sweatshirt. >>> u.s. authorities are examining trading by one of sac capital advisers' most successful portfolio managers. kate kelly's been reporting on the story. reuters says that the latest manager in question is gabriel platkin. a probe into the $14 million investment in weight watchers last year. platkin is a specialist in consumer and retail stocks. he makes investment decisions for more than $1.2 billion worth of assets. and we do have a winner. getco buying knight capital for about $2 billion. it sweetened its offer for the market-making firm to beat out a rival. getco said to have clinched the deal after it increased the amount of cash in its cash and stock offer. the deal is 2/3 cash, and it values knight at $3.75 a share. stock as you see in the premarket, well below that at $3.42. >>> in earnings news, oracle says software sales growth will
jim blushy -- john belushi. >> that would be alcohol for everyone, i think, amendment. beers for -- >> college for everyone. >> yeah, college for everyone. no studying, but college. >> yes, but college with your college sweatshirt. >>> u.s. authorities are examining trading by one of sac capital advisers' most successful portfolio managers. kate kelly's been reporting on the story. reuters says that the latest manager in question is gabriel platkin. a probe into...
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john malone constantly spins off things shuffling paper. looking to not only grow intrinsic value, but allowing it to surface. if you just bought a basket of securities that dr. malone had over the years, you'd have compounded assets at about a 15% the last 20 to 30 years. buffett does something else, buys and holds. irene rosenfeld, i said she's going to buy cadbury, she took it, put it into a package, spun off kraft. mondelez is a fantastic asset. another example, hillshire, sarah lee, we talked about that spinning off. look at the pieces. what are the elements that are worth? hillshire is a company 120 million shares, the stock's around $25, $3 billion market cap, basically the company sells protein for breakfast, jimmy dean sausages, the sausage category, how big is it? >> might be a little fat -- >> lunch meat. joe -- >> well, it's sausage. i want it. i eat it, i want it. i'm telling you it's not all protein. this is good. >> hot dogs, joe. >> just sort of in a trance. it's sort of a relief, once in a while, to have mario come and talk
john malone constantly spins off things shuffling paper. looking to not only grow intrinsic value, but allowing it to surface. if you just bought a basket of securities that dr. malone had over the years, you'd have compounded assets at about a 15% the last 20 to 30 years. buffett does something else, buys and holds. irene rosenfeld, i said she's going to buy cadbury, she took it, put it into a package, spun off kraft. mondelez is a fantastic asset. another example, hillshire, sarah lee, we...